Recently Facebook made a subtle change, one most people didn’t notice. I noticed but didn’t understand the full meaning until I saw this article about a designer who saw the unequal status of the little tiny people who appear on the top of the Facebook page. Since then I’ve started to see and think about more tiny everyday subtle things that make women appear less than their male counterparts.

All of these by themselves are not particularly outrageous, but they are simple examples of the systemic issue that has come to the forefront recently. I think it’s the systematic minimization of women in our every day life that is really on my mind. How many icons, lists, questions, etc are we bombarded with every day that put women below men? It is a cancer and we don’t even notice. How do you fight something so insidious without sounding like an alarmist or diminishing your message fighting tiny battles? Well, when you see something like the Facebook icon or a misogynistic post – you say something, call attention to it and when you can, you change it. Slow and steady isn’t sexy and it isn’t fair – but it appears to be the only way forward.